craft beer Tag

WHAT IS A KOLSCH?Do you know what a Kölsch is? Our Golden Ale is one!A style famous in Cologne, Germany for its brightness, clarity and easy drinking style. Fermented with ale yeast, then finished with cool lagering. The result is the best of both worlds: A light easy drinking pale that finishes crisp and clean.This new name for our fave brew will provide enlightenment for the craft beer lover about the style they are enjoying.Read the tasting notes HERE ...

Two new craft beers are now available in cans from the Mornington Peninsula's Original Craft Brewery.A very exciting day for us this week, where a long term goal culminated in awesome new beers in our actual hands (and yes, mouths not long after)The Two Bays Pale, a summery pacific ale, which has been brewed to best match the Peninsula life, only 4.5% it has been our most requested beer for the last two years, in fact it has generated the...

Once upon a time in a bar in Brugge Belgium (you know the ones, with 350 beers) three of us were on a special pre-Christmas road trip.Each shout was a round of 3, of course, by brewery. So the Chimay shout went like this, 8% Chimay Gold for her. 12% Chimay Blue for him, and low and behold every Belgian brewer has a 14% Christmas Beer in its own special chalice just for this time of year, so of course...

Many of us have shared a sip of ‘local’ with one of the eminently sessionable brews made by Red Hill Brewery. In the Peninsula’s dynamic brewing community, creativity is now being expressed through more than just the flavours — imaginative packaging has become a big part of the beer experience.This December, the brewery reveals the new look and officially launches two styles of session beers, previously only on tap, in their new packaging – the can.Over a decade and a half, entrepreneurs ­Karen...

Our little devil
One of our most hotly anticipated seasonal releases and our most notorious brew, in the style of beer made famous by ‘Duvel’, a strong Belgian Golden Ale, it is renowned for being “the devil’s brew”. At 8.5% it’s pure evil and impossible to resist. Beautifully golden in colour and with a smooth deceptive softness, it has intense flavours & depth, fruity, spicy and very dry. It is high in carbonation with champagne like bubbles and a luxuriant big white...